Val Tórtola
Principal Software Engineer at Scopely
Castellar del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolVal Tórtola is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience designing and operating large-scale backend systems, currently leading backend, cloud and database engineering for live games serving tens of millions of daily users. He excels at pragmatic architecture, cloud-native infrastructure as code, and high-performance .NET HTTP services, with deep expertise in relational and NoSQL data modeling, latency optimization, and observability. Val has repeatedly driven platform migrations and microservice transformations—from monoliths to Kubernetes—and improved developer experience through tooling and operational simplicity. Comfortable in both hands‑on coding and technical leadership, he pairs concurrent programming and CQRS/CQRS-style design with a business-minded approach to deliver resilient, maintainable systems. Based in Catalonia, he blends production-scale game engineering experience with a knack for turning legacy complexity into streamlined, testable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Networking Specialist, Cisco Networking Academy Program, Networking Specialist, Cisco Networking Academy Program at University of ValenciaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (141)
datetime10
linq10
http10
websocket10
entity-framework10
change-tracking10
async10
dotnet10
redis-client10
socket10
mapper10
scalable10
database10
net10
schema-migrations10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vtortola/NLog.Contrib.Targets.LogEntries
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
vtortola/WebSocketListener
Feb 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:462 commits, 25 PRs, 100 pushes in 4 years 1 month
scalablewebsocketsasynchronouslistenerwebsocket
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